![]() ![]() There’s nothing here that even touches the heartache of the shirts that become the emotional weathervanes of Ang Lee’s similarly-themed Brokeback Mountain. The same goes for the period-appropriate artwork that features on the walls of the main characters’ dwellings, among them a lovely Mexican landscape by Georgia O’Keefe, or Alberto Iglesias’ moody orchestral soundtrack. But clothes in films follow that most hackneyed of rules: it’s not what you’ve got, it’s how you use it. Whether it be the green jacket worn by Pedro Pascal’s character Silva as he rides into the town of Bitter Creek or the button-up linen underwear that Ethan Hawke’s Sheriff Jake keeps so beautifully folded in his bachelor digs, the clothes in Strange Way of Life are stars in their own right. There is both passion and tenderness in this lovingly-shot queer Western But rarely have they eaten up the scenery – and the story – as brazenly as they do in this 31-minute Western short, the first from fashion house Saint Laurent’s new film production company Saint Laurent Productions, which premiered at Cannes in a frenzy of media attention. ![]() 31minsĬostumes, production design and other solid analogue craft values have long been among the great pleasures of the Pedro Almodovar canon. ![]() Source: Cannes International Film Festivalĭir/scr: Pedro Almodovar. ![]()
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